For the first time in my adult life, I bought a NEW driver. My last driver purchase was a Titleist 983k in 2005, but it was used. I broke it in as Rustic Canyon (pictured above) and I remember hitting my first drive 300, hitting the green in two and walking away with birdie. Since then, many golf rounds broke down that driver so that my best drives were only going 260, and usually were more like 230. I'll admit some of that is a worse swing, but a lot was the club.

So, fittingly enough, this week, I broke in my new Cleveland Classic at Rustic Canyon again. This time, my first drive was only 255, but I didn't hit it well. After 9 holes of very slow play, I started over at around 4pm and then bombed my drive 285. I hit a 3 wood to 18 inches and made eagle (my first of 2012). After that, the new technology kept doing great things by turning bad drives into OK ones and sent me on my way to one of my best rounds on this great course. Suffice it to say, I'm happy with my purchase!